Kingsley Amis wrote some good criticism on the idea that WW1 marked the decline of British confidence and that art changed because of this. He’s not the first person to have observed this but he’s a funny, perceptive critic of Modernism.
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A good example is Rudyard Kipling, who wrote all that confident cultural bombast, then lost his son to the values he championed (arguably). Ex of real time loss of confidence.https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/when-rudyard-kiplings-son-went-missing …
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Fin de siècle was often used positively earlier on (associated with modern progress) but then the negative meaning took over (this period also overlaps with the Belle Epoque but that label came in hindsight after WWI) https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/fin-de-siecle … ;http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20161207-the-dark-side-of-the-belle-epoque …
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Closest single word from the art-crit lexicon would be Mannerism. In rock music: Emerson, Lake, and Palmer; in jazz, Kenny G.; in photography, Kodak; in sports, the NFL; in politics, the GOP.
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I’d go with Dewey, the writer on art who has most to say about society more broadly. He’s wonderful to read, I recommend Art as Experience or anything really. Another reference point for a similar period in the history of art is Mannerism.
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